1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 143inence in college affairs are based on the following: ^leuiberboard of regents, Hon. James Z. Moore, Miami, '67;sophomore president, freshman vice-president and treasurer; one member Stanford debate team, two Idaho debateteam; second place oratorical contest, five members gleeand mandolin clubs; one member 'varsity and one collegeteam, one member track team and one on senior baseballteam, two winning the 'W'; one member Tyee staff, editorin-chiefand an associate editor PaciAc Wave; representativeson sophomore frolic, freshman glee and 'varsity ballcommittees, all of which seems to indicate that our Washingtonbrothers are a lively set.Two striking facts attract the attention of a reader of theColby Oracle; the first is that every student in college appearsto be a fraternity man, and the second, the unusualway in which the women students apparently are segregatedfrom the men. According to the class lists every man in thesenior, junior and sophomore classes is a fraternity man,Greek letters being printed after every name. In the freshmanlist no Greek letters appear for any of the thirty freshmen; however, the fraternity lists include freshmen delegations,aggregating for the 5 fraternities 35 men. The 4 classlists include 107 men, while the 5 fraternity lists total 109men, divided as follows: A K E (1845) 27, Z * (1850) 22,A Y (1852) 28, * A © (1884) 25, A T n (1892) 7. Thereare 72 women students, bringing the total attendance to179; the faculty numbers 12 professors and 4 assistants andinstructors. The writer is not informed as to the particularspecies of co-education in vogue at Colby, and is thereforestruck with the peculiar manner in which the affairs of thewomen students are separated from the affairs of the men.There are separate class officers, class histories and classlists for the men and women; on commencement programsthere are again separate class prophecies, poems and histories; the women do not participate in college dramatics,and have a senior society of their own; on the other hand,they are elected to * B K and appear on college publications.While the student corps is small in number it appears to pursuewith some degree of vigor the usual undergraduate activities.* A 0 appears to good advantage, with the followingpreferments: * B K, i ; senior society, i; freshman society,I; executive athletic committee, chairman footballcommittee, 3 on football team, 2 on baseball team, including